40 Billionaires to Donate Half Their Money

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

You'll be contributing to the "pigs at McDonalds as you jog by" less than you do now, as they will be able to buy their own insurance and get off our dime..

are you kidding me? These people now armed with Dr. letters saying they're unfit to work will file unemployment at the best and work comp/SSI/etc etc etc at the worse. You really don't have a clue about real the real world.

BTW this opens yet another window for HUGE potential fraud and abuse

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

are you kidding me? These people now armed with Dr. letters saying they're unfit to work will file unemployment at the best and work comp/SSI/etc etc etc at the worse. You really don't have a clue about real the real world.

BTW this opens yet another window for HUGE potential fraud and abuse

What the hell are you talking about?

Wait - please don't even try to explain.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

What the hell are you talking about?

Wait - please don't even try to explain.

I won't even try but what should an uninsured obese heart patient with no family history of such, who requires 100K plus a year in care just to keep alive not mention make well, pay per month in a premium?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I won't even try but what should an uninsured obese heart patient with no family history of such, who requires 100K plus a year in care just to keep alive not mention make well, pay per month in a premium?

I'll be very happy when that uninsured's expensive medical care becomes less my cost (currently 100%), and more his own; and when that person can afford and gets on regular heart meds (not half meds intermittantly so he can afford them), gets nutritional and weight control advice, and gets regular checkups - rather than just going to the ER in crisis situations. I predict the cost of that person's medical care will markedly decrease. As will my contribution, if any, to it.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

I'll be very happy when that uninsured's expensive medical care becomes less my cost (currently 100%), and more his own; and when that person can afford and gets on regular heart meds (not half meds intermittantly so he can afford them), gets nutritional and weight control advice, and gets regular checkups - rather than just going to the ER in crisis situations. I predict the cost of that person's medical care will markedly decrease. As will my contribution, if any, to it.

These people are 25-30. Death at an early age sometimes is a calling. Unless you let me leash them and let me drag them along on a jog, a Dr. telling them they have bad hearts at a cost of 5K for appraisal and a lifetime of nickel and diming isn't going to change anything.

And my 5yr old neice could tell they have health and or heart problems never mind the medical degree

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

These people are 25-30.

Oh. I see.

The 46 million uninsured Americans are all the same in your world.

Got it.